Baskin, Y., 1991. Archaeologists lends a technique to rhino protectors. Bioscience 41 (8): 532-534
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Increasingly, these southern African nations are looking for ways to recoup the huge expense of managing their rhinos successfully. All three countries have accumulated massive stockpiles of horn from natural deaths in their herds and confiscations from poachers. In South Africa alone, the horn cache is growing at the rate of $1 million a year. Now those nations want to sell this horn to pay for the upkeep of the rhinos. Is there a way to open a highly controlled legal trade in horn that will help the rhino pay for its own conservation? Some proponents of controlled trade say the first step toward meeting this controversial goal is to have in place a foolproof method for identifying the geographic origin of any piece of horn brought to market. At a meeting in May sponsored by the San Diego Zoological Society, archaeologist Nikolaas van de Merwe told 300 rhino experts from around the world that he has succeeded in creating such a method.
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